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Submitted by Elizabeth on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 1:29pm

It's a bird, it's a plane.....it's a heart with blood tubes!!!  As a Food Educator with Local Matters I am always delighted to see teachers, like Ms. Angie at G. Tyree, reinforce what we are teaching the children in their classroom.  I stopped in to Ms. Angie's classroom last week and saw all the children engaged in different activities.  At one small table, three children were using playdough, straws, and a variety of tools to create.  Ms. Angie walked over to their table and said "Look, you made it.  I see the heart...and what are the straws coming out of it?"  One child answered veins and i jumped in to reinforce our local matters term "blood tubes."  A smile went across my face and I quickly grabbed my camera. 

     In our Food Matters program we teach children about their heart and veins or "blood tubes" and the reasons why we want to eat lots of healthy foods.  We do an experiment with straws and butter and show how a blood tube can become clogged.  We try to pour water through a straw with butter stuck in one end and show that the water cannot move through.  We connect this to the heart pumping blood throughout our bodies.  We teach children that they neeed some fats and oils every day to keep their brain working properly but that too many fattening foods, every day, over time, can cause problems with the heart and blood tubes.  These ideas were borrowed from our introductory Food Is Elementary curriculum written by Antonia Demas.  It is always a joy for me to see children making connections within their play about what they are learning.  Thank you Ms. Angie and G. Tyree!!!

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